Funeral services for Maud Gray Candler, 94, of Hopkinsville, were conducted on Thursday, June 29, 2006, at 1 p.m., at Hughart & Beard Funeral Home in Hopkinsville.

Rev. Gary Childress officiated at the services. Burial followed in the Martin Oliver Cemetery in Trigg County.

Mrs. Candler died on Monday, June 26, 2006, at 12:26 p.m., at the Covington’s Convalescent Center in Hopkinsville following a long illness.

Mrs. Candler was born on February 11, 1912, in Lyon County. She was the daughter of the late Sanford Dudley and Susan Adelia Litchfield Gray.

Mrs. Candler was a homemaker; and a member of Living Hope Baptist Church in Hopkinsville.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Gilbert French Candler in January 2003; a daughter, Doris Folden Henderson in 1998; a grandson, Richard V. Folden in 1987; eight siblings; and one half-brother.